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Cassandra W.A2KwizIQ community member

Non plus//// non pas plu

Sometimes it is okay to use pas and other times it is not. I am confused. I have answered both ways and get it wrong.

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Patrick K.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

H aspiré for french proper namesJ'adore le frère d'Hugo
I love Hugo's brother!

My understanding is that some french proper names that start with H use H aspiré, so this should/could be:

J'adore le frère de Hugo

Does the possessive "de" override the H aspiré rule?

Here are some others that I believe use "H aspiré": Henri, Hubert, Héctor, Harry

Can you please clarify?

Thanks

(I found the following: https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1952/04/02/l-uvre-d-hugo-ou-de-hugo_2010600_1819218.html?srsltid=AfmBOoorvYyZtNOVy6E7pXjCbZdxiKAqXFtYERcRhzDdtDDBoViC6mjJ. Looks like H aspire is a bit old fashioned)

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Jonathan S.A2KwizIQ community member

Question phrase

Question: Elle va ________ Havre aujourd'hui.

She's going to Le Havre today.(HINT: Le Havre is a French city). I noted the Le was missing in the question so after writing au, as being masculine I knew this was the answer but not having Le in front confused me so I added it, making my answer 'au le'. Why was the Le missing. Was this an examiners deliberate deception?

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Carl C.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

sera deja une experience inoubliable

My dictionary says "deja" means "already" or "before." Does "will be already an unforgetable experience" make sense? Is there another meaning to deja? Is "deja" necessary here?

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Anita P.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Three-coloured

I’ve only ever seen the adjective tricoloured ie. similar to French, in English

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Geoff P.C1KwizIQ community member

Reflexive verbs

In the examples "Je me les lave tous les jours" and "Nous nous l'imaginons blonde aux yeux bleus", why are laver and imaginer reflexive when we are not doing something to ourselves?

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Laura C.C1KwizIQ community member

M or F--just memorize?

how do we know if a country is M or F? I have been simply guessing--often incorrectly! du Japan? Do we just have to memorize them?

And how come Wales "Pays de Galles" is not "Des" like the Netherlands

Thanks

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Juan X.A2KwizIQ community member

Why do you use “choisis” in this sentence?

Quels bonbons tu as choisis? This is passé composé, right? Isn’t “ tu as choisi” right?

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Keith H.A2KwizIQ community member

Spelling test application

I would like to add words to a list and then be quizzed on the spelling. So the app would say the one word and then check my spelling. How do I do that?

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chris w.C1KwizIQ Q&A regular contributor

Why lui and not le?Je lui pardonnerai que vous soyez d'accord ou pas. I am probably being very stupid as this seems elementary. But I have forgotten the reason.

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